... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit... The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 23by English poets - 1790Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...Wishes," where, as a warning against the enthusiastical expectations of the young scholar, he says, • If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. The publications of Lydiat were almost entirely chronological, astronomical, and physical. He left... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...when his misfortunes were alluded to by Dr. Johnson in his "Vanity of Human Wishes," in these lines, " 'if dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end :" it was a subject of inquiry, who Lydiat was ? The following is, we believe, a correct list of his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...his misfortunes were alluded to by Dr. Johnson in his " Vanity of Human Wishes," in these lines, " If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end :" it was a subject of inquiry, who Lydiat was J The following is, we believe, a correct list of his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...patron, and the jail: See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust: If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem when learning her last prize bestows., The glittering eminence exempt from foes; See when the vulgar 'scapes despised... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...opiates shed their fumes in vain, 11 the garret and the gaol.. "To -buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end*. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See, when the vulgar 'scape*, despis'd... | |
| English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despis'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despis'd... | |
| John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...patronv and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes. See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from foes; See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despis'd... | |
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